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Taylor Swift Tears Up Over Nicole & Keith Baby News | Nicole Kidman, Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift Tears Up Over Nicole & Keith Baby News

Originally posted 07/08/2008 09:30AM

Sunday Rose Kidman Urban is only a day old – but she's already a superstar in the country music world.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban welcomed the newborn Monday morning in Nashville. And ever since then, their famous friends have been quick to offer up congratulations.

Taylor Swift was vacationing in Hawaii when she got the news, and she excitedly took to her blog. "Even just thinking about it now, I'm tearing up because I'm so happy for them," she wrote on her MySpace page.

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Taylor Swift Fears a Misplaced Microphone | Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift Fears a Misplaced Microphone

Originally posted 06/17/2008 01:15PM

Memo to Taylor Swift: Don't forget your microphone!

Swift, who is hosting MTV's Total Request Live this week to promote her upcoming special Once Upon a Prom on that network, writes on her MySpace blog that she often loses her microphone on the hectic set.

"I'm getting more used to hosting, but my big problem is that I always forget the microphone different places ... There's a lot of scrambling and running [to find it]," Swift writes. "Note to self for tomorrow's show: Tape it in your hands if you have to."

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Taylor Swift to Appear in Hannah Montana Movie

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Taylor Swift to Appear in Hannah Montana Movie

Originally posted 06/09/2008 06:25PM

Taylor Swift is teaming with Miley Cyrus and dad Billy Ray Cyrus for Hannah Montana: The Movie, Swift tells PEOPLE.

"I'm making a cameo," says the 18-year-old, "so I'm so excited about that. I'm playing one of my own songs and just in the background of one of the scenes."

Although one of country's hottest new stars, Swift doesn't mind sharing the spotlight in the Disney feature. "I'm just like the bar band, which is kinda fun."

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Taylor Swift Reveals 'I'm Sort of a Neat Freak' | Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift Reveals 'I'm Sort of a Neat Freak'

Originally posted 06/09/2008 08:30AM

Most teenagers like having a messy bedroom, but 18-year-old Taylor Swift can't stand it.

"I'm sort of a neat freak," she told GAC network's Celebrity Close Up host Lorianne Crook on June 5 for a show airing this summer. "I need the bed to be made."

"It's kind of interesting because that kind of defies the whole musician thing," she added. "I think we're supposed to be messy ... but I need everything to be neat and put away and organized."

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Kellie Pickler & Taylor Swift Team Up for New Song | Kellie Pickler, Taylor Swift

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Kellie Pickler & Taylor Swift Team Up for New Song

Originally posted 06/06/2008 03:10PM

Kellie Pickler is teaming up with fellow country star Taylor Swift for a new song on the former Idol's upcoming album.

On the track, the singers mine some ex-boyfriend territory for a get-back tune called "Best Days of Your Life." Although Pickler is mum about exactly which ex the song refers to, she tells PEOPLE, "You have to be careful when you date a songwriter. We always get the last word!"

Swift will join her in the studio to record harmonies on the song.

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Taylor Swift Blogs About Her Wet Performance

Originally posted 05/19/2008 02:15PM



Just call it Flashdance, country style.

At the ACM Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday night, Taylor Swift performed her song "Should've Said No" while dancing in a cascade of water pouring from the ceiling.

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Taylor Swift and Her Mom Go Promming | Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift and Her Mom Go Promming

Originally posted 05/13/2008 03:35PM

Taylor Swift was the guest of honor at a prom-themed party in Nashville on Monday night, but it was the prom queen's mom who stole the show.

The country singer's eyes popped open in surprise when she caught sight of her mother, Andrea, in the crowd of gown-and-tuxedoed guests dressed up as an over-the-top gym teacher-chaperone in a dowdy black dress, white socks, sneakers, and false teeth.

Props? She had hung a whistle around her neck and clutched a clipboard marked with the stern warning: "No Kissing On The Dance Floor!"

"Taylor told me I would have to wear one of those big dresses and I just couldn't do it," Andrea told PEOPLE. "But I wanted to go along with the theme. I came up with this instead. She didn't even recognize me when she came in!"

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Taylor Swift Recalls Unpopular School Days | Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift Recalls Unpopular School Days

Originally posted 05/05/2008 01:50PM

It wasn't exactly a scene from the movie Mean Girls, but Taylor Swift knows what it's like to have friends turn their backs on her.

"It happened to me when I was in seventh grade," the triple-platinum country singer, 18, tells Seventeen in the June issue. "I'd been best friends with this group of girls for as long as I could remember, but all of a sudden, they were cool and I wasn't anymore."

The icy attitudes of her classmates made Swift question herself.

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Taylor Swift: Emo Men in 'Guyliner' Are 'Hot'

Taylor Swift: Emo Men in 'Guyliner' Are 'Hot'

Originally posted 04/30/2008 04:20PM

Taylor Swift may have been chosen as one of PEOPLE's natural Beauties, posing for this year's Most Beautiful issue cosmetics-free, but when it comes to guys, she says she doesn't mind a man in makeup.

"I think guys who wear 'guyliner' – emo guys – and pull it off are hot!" she tells PEOPLE. "Guys can embrace makeup and flat irons and stuff like that and I have no problem with that. I think if it's done right, it can be really, really cute."

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Taylor Swift Goes to Prom

Originally posted 04/21/2008 12:30PM



Platinum record sales. Multiple CMT Music Awards. A Grammy nomination. Eighteen-year-old Taylor Swift has already crossed off some impressive milestones. But as of Friday night, she still hadn't done one thing: Senior Prom.

So on Saturday night, she went to prom at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, Ala. "It was literally one of the best nights of my life!" Swift tells PEOPLE.

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